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Folder settings

Apart from the standard 'Incoming', 'Outgoing', 'Sent' and 'Deleted'
folders, you can create any number of additional folders. These folders
are useful e.g. for archiving received and/or sent mail, or for
administrating mailing lists.

Whenever you create a new folder or edit one that already exists, a
settings window will open with the following options:

Name

The name of the folder will appear in the folder listing in the
main window.

Example: YAM mailing list

Path

This is the path in which the messages, the .fconfig file and the
.index file of the actual folder will be saved. Usually this is a
subdirectory of the actual basic folder directory, but you can
specify any other place, like another hard disk partition for
example.

Example: YAM_ml

Max. age

If you like, you can make YAM delete messages exceeding a certain
age automatically. To do so, just drag the slider to select a
value different from zero (which stands for the maximum age of the
mail, in days). Then switch to the 'Start/Quit' configuration
sheet and activate the option 'Delete old mail'.

NOTE: Messages with the status 'new' or 'unread' will not be
deleted automatically.

Type

Here you choose if the folder is for incoming and/or sent mail.
This influences the column titles and whose address is displayed
in the message list.

Mode

Folders can be protected with a password and/or be compressed if
necessary. There are the following modes available:

The XPK software package is needed for compressing. It is not
contained in the YAM archive, but can be downloaded e.g. from
Aminet for free. The settings for the compression library can be
found at Miscellaneous ?.

Sort by

Here the primary order of the messages in the chosen folder is
specified. You can have the mail sorted by message date, date
sent/received, sender, recipient, subject, size or status.
Concerning the message status, the messages will be sorted in
the following orders:

With the option 'Rev', the order will be reversed (e.g. Z-A
instead of A-Z).

Then by

Here the secondary order of the messages in the chosen folder is
specified. If for example mails are sorted by subject on a first
instance, messages with the same subject can be sorted by date or
author using this second key.

AppIcon stats

Enable this if you want this folder's statistics to be added to
those shown in the application icon that YAM usually puts on the
Workbench screen. By default, only the stats for the 'Incoming'
folder are noted there.

Since not all mailing list servers set the "Reply-To:" field to the
correct address (which would be the mailing list address), YAM can
help you to work around this problem, offering also some other
nice tricks for a good measure.

When you reply to a mail contained in this folder, YAM checks if
the data in the "To:" field of the original message is matched by
the contents of the To: pattern field -- if they do, the address
entered in the To: address field will be inserted as the recipient
instead of the recipient's address contained in the original
message.

Additionally, if you have entered a From: address, this will
replace your e-mail address when posting to the mailing list.
This is useful if you use different e-mail addresses for different
mailing lists, or just want to avoid SPAM.

You can also enter a Reply-To: address in case the mailing list
software doesn't set this.

The Autodetect button will try to guess what To: pattern and
To: address data should be used by scanning the first 5 messages
in the folder using the Smith&Waterman algorithm to search for
similarities between strings. This should make it easier to find
the correct mailing list pattern.

Lastly, you can select the signature that will be used by default
when replying or posting new messages to this mailing list.

Examples on how to use the mailing list support settings are given
in the Tips & tricks chapter.